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This encyclopedia traces the evolution of American workers and labor organizations from pre-Revolutionary America through the present day.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments How to Use This Work ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES VOLUME 1 Actors and Labor Adair v. The United States Adamson Act Affirmative Action Agency Fee Agent Provocateur Agrarianism Agricultural Labor Relations Act Airline Strikes Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America American Federation of Government Employees American Federation of Labor American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees American Federation of Teachers American Plan American Railway Union Anarchism Anarcho-syndicalism Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 A. Philip Randolph Institute Apprentice Arbitration/Conciliation/Mediation Aristocrats of Labor Artisan Labor Asian American Labor Assembly-Line Production Association of Catholic Trade Unionists Automation Bacon's Rebellion Bagley, Sarah Barry, Leonora Marie Battle of Blair Mountain Bellamy, Edward Bituminous Coal Strikes of 1974 and 1977–1978 Blacklist Black Lung Disease and Strike Blue-Collar Labor Boston Police Strike of 1919 Boulwarism Boycott Braceros Brewery Workers Bridges, Harry Bridgestone-Firestone Strike, 1994–1995 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Browder, Earl Russell Buck's Stove & Range Co. v. American Federation of Labor et al. Bumping Bureau of Labor Statistics Business Agent Business Roundtable Business Unionism Butchers Capitalism Carey, James Barron Caterpillar Strike Centralia Massacre Central Labor Union Certification Change to Win Federation Chávez, César Estrada Checkoff Child Labor Chinese Exclusion Act Civil Rights Movement and Labor Civil War and Labor Class Consciousness Clayton Antitrust Act Coalition of Labor Union Women Coal Miners Strike of 1943 Coeur d'Alene Cold War and Labor Collective Bargaining Colonial Labor Colorado Labor Wars Colored National Labor Union Columbine Mine Massacre Commonwealth v. Hunt Communism and Unions Company Town Company Union Comparable Worth Computer Revolution and Organized Labor Concessions Congress of Industrial Organizations Contingency Labor Contract Contract Labor Cooperatives Copper Miners and Strikes Corporate Campaign Cost-of-Living Adjustment Counterculture and Labor Cowboys Coxey's Army Craft Unionism Davis-Bacon Act Deadheading Dead Time Debs, Eugene Victor Decertification Deindustrialization DeLeon, Daniel Democratic Party and Labor Department of Labor Depression-Era Strikes Deregulation Detroit Newspaper Strike Direct Action Division of Labor Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement Downsizing Downsizing, Decertification, and Concessions Strikes Dual Unionism Dues Eight-Hour Movement Environment and Labor Equal Pay Act of 1963 Erdman Act Everett Massacre Exceptionalism Executive Orders Fair Employment Practices Commission Fair Labor Standards Act Family and Medical Leave Act Family Wage Farmer-Labor Alliances Fasanella, Ralph Fast-Track Legislation Federal Emergency Relief Administration Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers Fieldcrest Settlement Film and Labor Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley Fordism Foster, Frank Keyes Foster, William Zebulon Fraser, Douglas Andrew Free Labor Fringe Benefits Gastonia Strike General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade General Motors Sit-down Strike General Motors Strike of 2007 General Strike George, Henry Glass Ceiling Globalization Goldman, Emma Gompers, Samuel Goon Granite Workers Grape Boycotts Great Migration Great Upheaval Green, William Greenbackism Grievance Guaranteed Annual Wage Hard Hat Riots Haymarket Bombing Haywood, William Dudley Herrin Massacre Hill, Joe Hillman, Sidney Hoffa, James Riddle Homestead Steel Lockout and Strike Homework Hormel Strike and Lockout Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union Huerta, Dolores Immigrants and Labor Indentured Servant Industrial Revolution Industrial Time Industrial Unionism Industrial Workers of the World Injunction International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union International Paper Strike International Union International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Jacksonian Era and Labor Jones, Mary Harris ("Mother") Journeyman Jurisdiction Kirkland, Joseph Lane Knights of Labor Labor Colleges Labor Day Labor Federation Labor Journalism Labor Parties Labor Theory of Value La Follette Committee La Follette Seamen's Act Landrum-Griffin Act Lassalleanism Latino Labor Lattimer Massacre Lawrence Textile Strike Lewis, John Llewellyn Little Steel Formula Living Wage Lochner v. New York Lockout Loewe v. Lawlor Longshoremen Lordstown Strike Los Angeles Times Bombing Lowell Female Labor Reform Association Ludlow Massacre Lynn Shoe Strike of 1860 VOLUME 2 Machine Politics and Labor Maintenance of Membership Major League Baseball Players Association Manifest Destiny and Work Maquiladora March on Washington (1963) Marxism and Labor Masculinity and Labor Master Craftsman Matewan May Day McGuire, Peter James McKee's Rock McNeill, George Edwin Meany, George Merit Raise Middle-Class Ideology Military and the Working Class Minimum Wage Minority Labor Mitchell, John Mohawk Valley Formula Molly Maguires Moore, Michael Francis Mullaney, Kate Muller v. Oregon Murray, Philip Music and Labor National Association of Manufacturers National Civic Federation National Education Association National Industrial Recovery Act National Labor Relations Act National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University National Labor Union National Trades' Union National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees Local 1199 National War Labor Boards: World War I and World War II Native Americans and Labor Nativism and Labor New Bedford Textile Strike Newspaper Boys New York City Teachers Strike 9to5: National Association of Working Women Non-wage Labor Norris-LaGuardia Act North American Free Trade Agreement No-Strike Pledge Nussbaum, Karen Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970) Oil Workers Open Shop Operation Dixie O'Reilly, Leonora O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney Outsourcing Overtime Owen, Robert; Owen, Robert Dale Papermakers Parsons, Albert Richard; Parsons, Lucy Eldine Part-time Labor Paternalism Pattern Bargaining Pensions Perkins, Frances Coralie Pesotta, Rose Phelps Dodge Strike Philadelphia Carpenters' Strike (1791) Picketing Piecework Pinkertons Pittston Coal Strike Popular Front Populism Postal Workers and the Strike of 1970 Powderly, Terence Vincent Prevailing Wage Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization Strike Profit Sharing Progressive Era and Labor Prohibition and Labor Protectionism Protective Labor Legislation Pullman Strike/Lockout Pure and Simple Unionism Quality Circles Quickie Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act Raiding Railroad Strike of 1877 Railroad Strike of 1922 Railway Labor Act of 1926 Randolph, Asa Philip Rate Cutting Ravenswood Lockout Reagan, Ronald, and Labor Reconstruction and Labor Red Scare Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. Religion and Labor Republicanism Republican Party and Labor Rerum Novarum Retail Workers Reuther, Walter Right-to-Work Runaway Capital/Shops Sabotage Salary Scab Schneiderman, Rose Second Great Awakening and Labor Service Employees International Union Service Industry Shanker, Albert Shape-up Sherman Antitrust Act Shop Steward Sick-out Sit-down Strikes Skidmore, Thomas Slavery Social Darwinism Social Gospel Socialism Social Reform Unionism Social Security Act Solidarity Southern Tenant Farmers' Union Southwest Railway Strikes of 1885–1886 Speedups Staley Lockout Steel Strike of 1919 Steel Strike of 1959–1960 Steward, Ira Stint Strasser, Adolph Stretch-out Strike Subcontracting Sunset Industry Sweatshop Sweeney, John Joseph Sylvis, William H. Sympathy Strike Taft-Hartley Act Tariffs and Labor Taylorism Teamsters Terrorism and Labor Tompkins Square Riot Trade Union Unity League Tresca, Carlo Triangle Factory Fire of 1911 Truman, Harry, and the Labor Movement Trumka, Richard Louis Underemployment Unemployment Unfair Labor Practices Union Local Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees Union Shop United Auto Workers of America United Auto Workers Strike of 1945–1946 (General Motors) United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America United Farm Workers of America United Food and Commercial Workers Union United Mine Workers of America United Packinghouse Workers of America United Rubber Workers of America United Steelworkers of America Uprising of the 20,000 Utopianism and American Labor Verizon Strike of 2000 Vietnam War and Labor Voluntarism Wages Wal-Mart Campaign War Labor Disputes Act (Smith-Connally Act) Welfare Capitalism West Virginia Mine Wars, 1919–1923 White-Collar Workers Wildcat Strike Winpisinger, William Wayne Wobbly Women's Trade Union League Workers' Bill of Rights Working Class Workingmen's Movement Workman's Compensation Work Sharing Work-to-Rule Writers and Organized Labor Wurf, Jerome Yablonski, Joseph A. Yellow-Dog Contract Yeoman Chronology Index

About the Author

Robert E. Weir, PhD, is visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is coeditor of Greenwood's Class in America: An Encyclopedia.

Reviews

Robert Weir has produced a workman-like book that makes a good resource for U.S. labor history. . . . [I]t will be useful . . . for students at school and undergraduate level and for public libraries and journalists.
*Reference Reviews*

Each entry essay is, on average, two to four pages in length; a few are shorter. Although the essays are relatively short, they are well-written and concise, and are packed with information. Each entry is followed by a short list of 'Suggested Reading' selected for availability and readability by the target audience of nonspecialists.
*ARBA*

This revised and expanded edition of Workers in America (2004) aims to provide students, teachers, and anyone looking for general information about American labor history, and particularly the organized labor movement, a jumping-off point for their research. . . . Recommended for high school, public, and undergraduate collections.
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